KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban government is keen to join the BRICS economic forum. A spokesman announced this on Tuesday, ahead of the group’s summit in Russia.
The summit of emerging economies includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. It will meet on October 22-24 in the southwestern Russian city of Kazan.
Hamdullah Fitrat, a government deputy spokesman, stated that the BRICS economic forum associates countries with major resources. It also includes the world’s biggest economies, especially Russia, India, and China.
“Currently, we have good economic ties and commercial exchanges with them. We are keen to expand our relations and participate in the economic forums of the BRICS,” he said.
No country has officially recognized the Taliban authorities, but they are developing growing relations with founding BRICS nations, including China and Russia.
The group, which has recently expanded by including Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Ethiopia, has not publicly reacted to the Taliban government’s comments.
A spokesman for the Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs told AFP on Wednesday that they have “no information so far” about an invitation to the event.
Both Moscow and Beijing have expressed their readiness to invest in commercial projects in Afghanistan and to cooperate with Taliban authorities in its fight against Daesh Khorasan, the Daesh group’s Afghanistan branch.
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This news is sourced from [Arab News] and is for informational purposes only.
